Books written by Peter Galison
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Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics
In their remarkable book Leviathan and the Air - Pump , Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer used the air pump to confront two very different visions of what it might mean to produce an empirical demonstration in the early modern period .
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Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps: Empires of Time
Schaffer, Simon. 1992. "Late Victorian Metrology and Its Instrumentation: A Manufactory of Ohms." In Invisible Connections. Instruments, Institutions, and Science, eds. Robert Bud and Susan E. Cozzens.
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Angle Mort numéro 12
Angle Mort 12 est le numéro de la revue le plus complet jamais publié, avec en plus des 4 nouvelles inédites qu'il propose (de Aliette de Bodard, Raphael Carter, Martin L. Shoemaker & Jean-Marc Agrati), un article d'histoire des sciences ...
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How Experiments End
The End Appendix: Authors of Papers on Neutral Currents Abbreviations for Archival Sources Bibliography Index. This book is addressed to readers interested in how arguments emerge from the modern physical laboratory.
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Objectivity
Helmholtz reported that he saw polarization figures “not just in homogeneous green, yellow, red, nor even in mixed, but rather in the saturated gradations of these color tones that colored glasses give.
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Picturing Science, Producing Art
The whole neo - Kantian legacy of a disinterested aesthetic perception , from Konrad Fiedler , T. E. Hulme , and Roger Fry to more recent " formalisms , ” has been founded on the desire to escape from physiological time and its vagaries ...
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Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time
Traces the true birth of modern twentieth-century science through the groundbreaking work of German theoretical physicist Albert Einstein and Henri Poincarâe, a mathematician responsible for mapping time coordinates across continents.
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Scientific Authorship: Credit and Intellectual Property in Science
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Picturing Science, Producing Art
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time
Esteemed historian of science Peter Galison has culled new information from rarely seen photographs, forgotten patents, and unexplored archives to tell the fascinating story of two scientists whose concrete, professional preoccupations ...
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Big Science: The Growth of Large-scale Research
The 13 papers, from a 1988 workshop at Stanford University, consider the American, European, and Japanese experience. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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The Architecture of Science
Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor Peter Galison, Emily Ann Thompson. of buildings, there is no simple unit)'. ... be no place; it is construction that evokes the place and transforms the space.
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What Reason Promises: Essays on Reason, Nature and History
... and Judaism Medieval and Modern (2014), and Aesthetic Theology and its Enemies: Judaism in Christian Painting, Poetry, and Politics (2015). His piece in this collection, “Love=,” grows from the confluence of two other projects.
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The Roots of Special Relativity: Science and Society
reply was simply to deny that he had a theory of electrons. Rather, he said, his was a theory concerned with the relationship between rigid rods, perfect clocks, and light signals.17 On the other hand, the theory of Lorentz and Poincare ...